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Live Play Data

Genesis Wave

{X} {G} {G} {G} · Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)
2%
Live Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
808
Decks Running
376
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
54%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=99
1%
T1
2%
T2
1%
T3
4%
T4
8%
T5
68%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17
Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

811 brought · 348 players
Brought to game
811
Ever drawn
184
Reached battlefield
99
Still on board at game end
8
≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=89) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=517).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=77).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +23.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

209 instances
3.3%
Library
3.8%
Battlefield
51.7%
Graveyard
5.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Genesis Wave card

Genesis Wave

{X} {G} {G} {G}
Sorcery
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Arif Wijaya

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.